Trout

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Andy T with an 11 pound spotted beauty taken on a #14 Speckled Nymph. Photo by Randall Wood.
  • Fly Fishing New Zealand
    • Pool Sharing – A Tale of Two Fishes

    By Paul Corliss ”No”! he said emphatically. ”It’s my pool and I’ll get to it.

    08/10/2021
    Opening Day 2021/22. Photo: Richard Cosgrove/Fish & Game NZ.
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  • Trout Fishing
    • Opening Day Anglers hit the water in numbers for 2020/2021 Season

    Thousands of Opening Day anglers across the country headed out before dawn this morning to.

    03/10/2021
    The author with a brownie from the Selwyn River. Trout Bait Fishing Secrets.
  • Trout
    • Trout Bait Fishing Secrets – Confessions of a Bait Angler

    By Piscator Not without a certain amount of soul searching, liberally mixed with fear and.

    27/08/2021
    I wonder how many of the huge trout caught and released in the Twizel Canals survive the ordeal and go on to spawn the next generation. Photograph courtesy of Lance Gill and Fish The Drift NZ.
  • Fly Fishing New Zealand
    • Catch and Release or Catch and Kill – By Dick Marquand

    “A good game fish is too valuable to be caught only once.” Lee Wulff Advice.

    27/08/2021
    Top row: Hope's Dark, Hope's Silvery. 2nd row: Mrs Simpson, Grey Ghost, 3rd row: Red Shadow, Hart's Creek. 4th row: Yellow Rabbit, Brunton No.1. Night Fishing with Lures.
  • Canterbury
  • Canterbury Low-land Lakes
  • Canterbury Rivers
  • Fly Fishing New Zealand
    • Night Fishing with Lures – Hart’s Creek, L2, Halswell and Selwyn Rivers

    Night Fishing with Lures – “Old School” – Fewer and fewer anglers lip-hook a live.

    21/08/2021
    Northern end of the Hurunui River lagoon during the salmon season.
  • Canterbury Rivers
  • Hurunui River
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    • Hurunui River Salmon and Trout Fishing – Photographs and 2018 Update

    Hurunui River Trout and Salmon Fishing Video The Hurunui River is one of the best.

    19/07/2021
    A younger looking Tony Entwistle (right), with client John Hewitt from the United States of America, holding for the camera one of four 10lb plus trout caught and released in a single afternoon in the Nelson region. Hiring a trout fishing guide. Now retired, Tony is a Life Member and former President of the NZPFGA.
  • Fly Fishing New Zealand
    • Hiring a Trout Fishing Guide – Why Hiring a Guide is a Good Idea

    Hiring a Trout Fishing Guide By Allan Burgess Our fishing guides are doing it tuff.

    15/05/2021
    This spring creek brown still has my Pheasant Tail Nymph in its mouth - the same fly I lost a week earlier! Landed on a bead-head Hare & Copper with poly-yarn strike indicator. Photo courtesy Sam Corliss.
  • Fly Fishing New Zealand
    • Strike Indicator – Looking at Different Indicators for Nymph Fishing

    Strike Indicator – Looking at Different Strike Indicators By Paul Corliss I’m not talking about.

    19/04/2021
    Tasmanian Devil Trout Lure
  • Trout Spinners
    • Tasmanian Devil Trout Spin Fishing Lure or Aquafoil – rigging tips on video

    Tasmanian Devil Trout Spin Lure – the most popular with anglers and trout The Tasmanian.

    29/05/2021
    This Lake Hayes brownie fall for a Dragonfly Nymph, a favourite fly of stillwater anglers. Stillwater-brownies.
  • Fly Fishing New Zealand
    • Stillwater Brownies – Favourite Flies For Stillwater Brown Trout

    Stillwater Brownies – Six Favourite Flies by Dick Marquand Generally speaking, brown trout inhabiting Stillwaters.

    09/04/2021
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